Bill-file.



No. 657,455. Patented Sept. 4, |900.

J. S. SAMMONS.' x

BILL FILE.

(Application led Jan. 8, 1900.)

`'.No Model.)

r,459,471, dated September 1 5, 1891. patent the impaling-pin is provided with a UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

moon s. sAMMoNs, or MARsHALLTowN, IOWA.

sriicrrcn'rion forming part of `Leraars :Patent No. 657,455, dai-.ea september 4, 1900.

` Application lecl January 6, 1900. Serial No. 586.` (No model.)

To a/ZZ wiz/0m it may con/cern:

Beit knownthat I, JACOB S. SAMMoNs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Marshalltown, in the county of Marshall and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bill-Files, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of billiles in which the bills or papers are punched before they are placed upon therod or file proper, and is designed more especially as an improvement upon my prior patent, No. In said point which forces its way through the paper in making a hole for the body of the pin, and in practice it is found that this` method not only greatly increases the bulk of the paper around, the pin, preventing the bills or papers lying fiat, but also makes it inconvenient or difficult to lift a number of the bills or papers for the purpose of exposing one. The present invention,therefore,contemplates the production of a device that will fully overcome these objections lby punching ahole in each paper before it is filed, the said hole being formed by removinga disk` of the paper'and is slightly larger than the rod or pin upon which the paperis filed, thereby permitting the papers to liefiat and making it easy to i move them upon thepin or rod in exposing any one. e e

The device is more particularly adapted for filing doctors prescriptions, as it provides for entirely separating the papers in refilling a prescriptiomso that the prescription to be refilledV is the only one exposed. An important feature of the invention is the provision of a pivoted plateor liftwhich receives the paper and automatically, moves it above the head. of the punch when said punch is operated to punch a hole into saidv paper, thereby freeing the paper fromthe head or enlarged `portion of` the punch and avoiding danger of-tearing it in moving the same upon the rod.`

The device also provides afreceptaclefor `collecting the disks removed by the punch.

The following specification enters 4into a detail description of the `construction and opto the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference thereon, which designate the dif- 3 is a transverse sectional view on aline with the punch. Y

In carrying out my invention the tablet or support A is made up of a bottom board A and a top board A2, connected together at one end by a metal strip B and separated attheir opposite end by a cross-piece C. The central part of the top board is cut away above the cross-piece and the body of the board is cut rearward, as shown at d a, forming a resilient portion or spring-board A3, to which is at, 'cached one part of the punch, hereinafter described. Extending across the front end of the tablet is a covering-plate D, secured in place by screws, which pass into the end portions of the top board and into the cross-piece, said covering-plate overlapping the front edge of the tablet. At the center of this plate is a hole E, through which the headof the punch, hereinafter referred to, passes in cutting a .holein the bill or paper, and in the rear of and at each side of said hole E the coveringplate is depressed to receive the lower part of a pivoted plate or lift F. The pivoted plate or lift is pivoted upon a pin G, passed through ears d d, formed at the rear end of the covering-plate', and comprises upper and lower sections,which are slightly separated to receive i the bill 'or paper which is passed between them. The lift is formed of a single plate bent upon itself to present the sections between4 which the bill ispassed, and in forming thisV lift a rearwardly-projecting tongue f is provided for operating the same.` e The forward end .of the pivotediplate or lift is cut away, as shown, so as to embrace the head of thev punch and securea better hold upon the bill or paper and also form a guide for said punch.` Onej end of the coveringplate is .turnedup to form a guide d.` Below the cen,- ter portion of the covering-plate, between the ends of the top `board,`is1eft a space, in

which are collected vthe dis-ksteff-paper 4rerodpavhile `theloop -M servesfasra gguide, so moved by thepunh, saidsp'aeefeoinmunin that -feach paper will lie 4perfectly straight eating with'a chute lH, through which the upon the tablet and upon each other. 7o disksjof paper are` delivered. Y .a n '.;..,It.wi1l.fbe noted that the fingers or forward i 5 I designates the rod upon which the bills'oll ends of the lower section of the-pivoted plate papers are filed-saidrodleeinglient1i V the :oryliftpaiiebent downwardfand pass through form of a loop presentingitwo members a df openings '^in'2'the covering-'plate in order that v iis attached to the spring portion A3 of the topA the bill or prescription will readily pass into 75 board by passing the end of ythe rearJ'ei-' -si1ft, and it will also be understood that xo ber through the same, being held in place by ythe forward member of the rod I is sprung l nuts i i. The `end, of the forward memberiof sothat the head K at the lowerend thereof the rod-lisenlalrgedxtb'foiwazpn'lheadf Willibleaf:lightlysagain-st'tleepivotelgplate or cutter K, adapted to passfthroughltheihole v .tojnsure'itsibeing properlycentered over 8o in the covering-plate;l said cutter'being no jliehle'E. V

t 5 mally ,located a slight distance above This deviceprov'ides for readily flingwpa-` openingtoperm'it ofthebill A'ori aper'ibe pelis that are (required toibekepto'r future y passed underth-e-same. Thes' oard .y reference,ani whenusedffor,linggpreseripalso carries alipL Whichengage ti'onsv 1w l remove "thef'dang'er dffmaking ua 85 proj-'ectingifrom"thegpivotedjplatejo Y* i In take'wlre'refa -largen'uinber ofxplfescrip- 2o isl'forfthe` purpose off operating-saidlf ti ns'areitogetherffornlrelillingaf'prescripthespringiboa'rdiis fde'pressed th A ion those'rabove theonetobe refilled 'are tion of the punch. A wire loop j moved over upon*theforward-'inember-'ofthe atlitsends;tothetopfboard'ate ace downwardywhile, the "onetoibe A're- 9o free end ofthespringboardjs ledistheonlyaoneithatis"ezgp'osed f "25 disposed-atright an-gl'estotherod dpas Agivin-'g thus describedfmyinventiomwhat ,"and desireto secureby Letters aV cad g or cutter 35 board A3"betw'een the'mand :are secured in placeibyfth'e rod'I.v l "f pivotedrplateupon 'The' metal stri-p13 l t" urved rodysu'bstant-ially ofthe'boaldsforniingt y abletaref v urposeset'forth.. 105 together/jpreventsjthemjfroniillwar of at'ablet v formedin'tolal roll at its upper end l x l "t'lrerein, `a la"handholdffor*they devi-celand Vis p a h a or cutter more ,particularly "inre-movin` rp to sald "holefa-fsprinjgto p tionwithf-th v,a'cc'o'inxp'a'nying a ure3is@passedfmeansforautomaticallyflifi;- `con struction andlopera'ti'on o" Ythe freese'nd ofthe ivoted plate-'upon Y j-will" enea "unfderst Ethe;

tantially fa shown fand "for fthe se'sf'atforth.;l Inabllfl ported, a pivoted plate having fingers which embrace the head or cutter, means operating the pivotedplate from the spring which supports the curved rod or punch, a guide-loop for the bill or paper, and a side gage at one side of the tablet, substantially as shown and for the purpose setforth. l

5. In a bill-file, the combination, of the support or tablet made up of two boards connected together at one end and separated at the other end, the upper board being cut away Y as shown to form a spring, aV plate located upon the tablet and provided With a hole therein, a curved rod attached to the aforesaid spring and provided with a head or cutter adapted to pass into the hole of the plate, a pivoted plate or lift supported upon the tablet, and means for operating the pivoted plate from the spring which supports the curved rod or punch, substantially as shown and for the purpose set forth.

6. In a bill-file, the combination, of the tablet or support, a plate having a hole therein, a curved rod having a head or cutter adapted to pass into said hole, a spring to which the curved rod is attached and supported, a plate pivoted upon the tablet and having a rear# wardly-projecting tongue, a plate attached to' the spring and adapted to engage the tongue of the pivoted plate, a side gage on the tablet,

and a wire loop passing under the curved rod i Y' together with a metal strip securing the ends of the boards forming the tablet, substantially as shown and `for the purpose set forth.l

JACOB S. SAMMONS. Witnesses:

C. L. DUFFIELD, A. E. THOMAS. 

